Step 1: Start Collecting

You're going to need ALOT of soda tabs. I used 94 tabs, but my neck is really small so you should probably get as many as possible. I would say 100+.

Step 2: Cut N' Bend

Now you're going to need to cut the soda tabs so you can put them together. So take your multitool and select your pliers. I think the best place to cut is the little crease in the tab. Refer to the first picture for futher explaination on the crease.

Cut 4 tabs on the same side then bend each one. Try to bend the same amount for each one.

Step 3: Connect N' Bend

Now take 8 cut tabs and seperate them into two piles of 4. Slip one set of 4 into the uncut part of the other set. Refer to the picture for futher explaination.

Now bend the cut part back on the set you put through the hole.

Step 4: Make the clasp

Add links to the chain until it will fit comfortably around your neck.

Now take your safety pin and your multitool, and cut the pointy part off of your safety pin so that you don't accidently stab yourself while putting on the necklace.

Put the safety pin through the hole at one end of the chain and put the other part through the other end.

Step 5: AND BAM!

Now you have an awesome necklace. Now go out and have strangers ask you about it.

I found many pull-tabs by checking the tops of canned foods. This included cat and dog food cans. But they're all different sizes. I usually drink bottles, and the amount of pop I consume is relatively low.

Having read a couple of instructables on making chain mail out of pop tabs I started saving them too. I am not much of a beverage drinker so I soon saw I would die of old age before having enough. On my short drive to work I noticed a number of discarded aluminum cans along the road. Thankfully it wasn't long before I realized that most of those cans probably had pop tabs. They did. I got a wal mart sack and went out to gather pop tabs. I walked along the road and when I spotted a can I'd pick it up, take the tab off and put the can in my walmart sack. At the end of roughly 45 minutes I had a bulging walmart sack of aluminum cans and roughly 4 times more pop tabs than I'd been able to collect in months. From this I got excercise, cleaned up the roadside and got the pop tabs I was looking for. I suppose if I wanted to I could save enough of the cans to cash them in at a recycler's. Since we have a community recycling center I just donated the cans to them. Its a bit hot now to go out gathering but as soon as it cools off a bit I will be getting more pop tabs.

eh, you should have cut the thicker part vs the thin part, cutting the thin part seems to be too weak, as it will probably bend from pressure. I was able to support 58 lbs of weight on mine b4 i ran out of weight lol.